Embrace The Suck

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we got to

embrace

the suck

and so I

borrowed this from my man David Goggins

and if you ain't checking out some of his stuff

that's a good place to go

former Navy SEAL veteran

turn himself from an average Joe to

some would say the baddest man on the planet

and so a lot of what he preaches and talks about

is embracing the suck

embracing the the things that don't necessarily

aren't your favorite and that you don't like to do

here in lies to me

one of the keys in life

you know I think you know a lot of people and there's even a lot of people

that I like and that I follow

that talk about some stuff that this this would be one that I would challenge

and that's you know you got to love everything

are you happy and you know all that other stuff and man there

there's times I don't care what it is that you're doing

as a parent in your marriage plan a sport

living your dream

uh being an actor being an actress I mean I I've even you know with daughters

I've even learned more about dance and that game ain't even easy for

for girls and women that's a grind

anything that you do in life that's gonna be great

there's gonna be a sucky part to it and what I've noticed is either way

things suck in life it's like okay it sucks to put in the work

but it sucks to be broke it sucks to put in the work but it also sucks to be

out of shape it sucks to grind in the process leading up to a fight but it sucks to lose

it sucks to put the work in with your kids but it sucks to watch them fail

like whatever you're avoiding the opposite of that usually sucks worse so

pick your suck pick what do you want to suck

and so I don't care what it is that you're doing if you want to be great at it you got to embrace

the suck and so you know I look at even parenting greatest joy in the world greatest thing in the

world as a parent there's some things that suck as a parent 80% of it is great 20% of it is hard

there's things that whether it's not sleeping as much or messy houses messy cars misbehaving you know

whatever it is there's things that you change in diapers whatever there's things that in that process

there's no way that people like oh yeah this is all great and easy it ain't easy

in sports you may love the game of football love the game of basketball love whatever it is but

you may hate cardio you may hate doing sprints you may hate rehab you may hate training this you may hate

the things that sometimes suck you got to do those things or you're gonna take an L

you may love bodybuilding or weightlifting or getting in shape or you may like the way that you

look but you may not love eating broccoli over ice cream you may not like eating sweet potatoes

over french fries you may not love the diet and nutrition part of it you may not love cutting weight you

may not there's parts of the game that suck if you want to be great you want to be a doctor but you

don't want to stay up and study all night I mean I know people that are going to school to be

attorneys you I think you can't even have a job when you're studying to be an attorney they don't

even want you to have a job that's how much they want you obsessed with what it is that you're doing

you want to be a doctor you want to be a attorney you want to graduate from college but

there's times where you got to stay up and cram all night there's times you got to study when other

people are are having fun there's times you got to stay up for finals or whatever it is all night

long just to have yourself prepare there's parts of the journey that suck I got friends of mine

tons of them that are in the coaching game love the game of coaching part of the coaching game you

got to move most coaches that I knew that made it they've moved around six seven times move their

family all over the country that sucks I can't be great long hours in coaching and breaking down

film and traveling and recruiting that not all that stuff can be great but everybody wants to win a

Super Bowl how great would it be to be Phil Jackson how great would it be to be Bill Bellicet how

great would it be to go in coaching but there's things in the like I remember I could tell you where

I was sitting I was I was sitting in a hotel and I'm I'm looking at Bill Bellicet on TV after the

Patriots won the Super Bowl and they were about to go into a parade and Bill Bellicet was chanting

no days off look it up Google it I mean my dude 60 years old had to be on his grind

60 years old coaching at the highest level arguably the greatest coach in the history of the game

I mean you ain't sick of doing this you mean to tell me he wouldn't like to he said no days off no

people don't want to hear that they just want to say what everybody else wants to wants to hear I'm

coaching I'm trying to coach elite here I'm today is a day for we're trying to coach elite people

here if you're not trying to be great if you're not at least trying to be good if you're trying to

be average hang up stop this the same for you if you're trying to be good great or above you got

it you got to be you got to let me be 100% with you and that there's things in your process stop

feeling bad for yourself you think it's just you it ain't just you it's not just you that has

something in your business I don't care if you're a nurse or plan any NFL it's not just you

that's going through something they got some parts of your business that suck so how do you get over

this stuff once you start to accept it you got to have a vision for where you want to be where am I

going to be 10 years from today because of this yeah I'm going through a grind with my kids or whatever

the thing is think about what do you want Christmas to look like 10 years from today five years from

today whatever it is that you're going through in a moment that's a part of the process that sucks

what's five years from today look like you know specifically I could tell you one of the things in

my business on the come up I love leadership I love the whole process of everything one of the things

I didn't love it was okay I liked it up and I didn't I can't say I loved it was the sales process

getting told no having appointments with people and they forgot they no showed me and I drove

all the way out there all the guess what that was part of the process that was part of the process

that I didn't like that I had to embrace the suck did it anyway did it at a hot level embrace that

journey dominated people at something that I didn't even love but I love the outcome I love the

doors that it opened I love the leadership aspect the building aspect entrepreneurial I love

everything else that came with that after that but I had to embrace that part of that journey no

matter what the part is of the journey for you you got to know I don't care if it's being a nurse

there's something out there between where you're at and where you want to be in any chosen field or

endeavor that's going to cause you to come to this road where you're either going to have a vision

of where you're going to be and you're going to do those things anyway or the things that that suck in

the process you're going to not do and not get to where you want to be you got to remind yourself

of the price that comes before the prize yeah you got to keep your eye on the prize but you got

to remind yourself of the price that has to be paid to get closer to that prize another thing that

don't help you on your journey in this is that you got to remind yourself of other people that have

it worse yeah you're traveling yeah you had to do whatever late night but at least you get to

lay next to your wife lay next to your husband lay next to your kids tonight possibly and somebody's

in Afghanistan for the next year suck it up which is worse look at people and have a different

perspective and remind yourself of how many people out there have it worse what if you had to do

this what if you had to do that one of my mental perspective changes on my come up in business I

used to ride my remind myself coming from youngstown Ohio I had a bunch of friends and people that I

knew that went to jail that went to prison I would I would visit these people and they be in there for

two years three years four years five years and when I would go through things where I had a

late night and I had to get up early instead of saying I got to I start thinking man I get to I get

to go to work they're stuck in there yeah I'm going for three days grinding I get to come home these

people are going for three years or I'll remind myself of friends of mine that had to go fight for this

country shout out much respect thank you to all the military out there and I'll remind myself even

when people tell me man Simon you deserve this everything that you got man you deserve that my

response is always I don't know if I deserve it more than other people in the world I don't know how I

can say I deserve it more than somebody that gave their foot fighting for this country but I

appreciate it yeah I'm grinding for it I like it part of the process like to reward that I don't

know if I deserve it more than anybody else but I know my mindset has always been stop feeling bad for

yourself Simon somebody's in Afghanistan right now or somebody's serving this country overseas and

they can't even see their family tomorrow dog when people tell me how how how great it is that I'm

sparring and boxing live still 36 years old training jujitsu as a brow belt hanging with people black belt

still pursuing that craft and stretching and running and working out on it man you you grind you

putting so much work I don't buy into it why because I think how many people are out there better than

me I'm watching David Goggins run out there for hours to be stretching for two hours I'm comparing

myself to the elite of the elite I'm not that good I ain't grinding that hard I think I you got to

remind yourself of how good you got and how much worse it could be you also got to be patient with

yourself in this process that mindset doesn't happen overnight but if you remind yourself and you

work at it sometimes it's your thinking it's the stinking thinking that caused you like when you

start to get better at it maybe your perspective on things in the process that embracing the suck

on a scale of one to ten started out as a two but today it's a five I know people in my business that

they're they're they're mindset in view of the things that sucked in the process their mind on how

they saw it was a one or two and now they're a five that's a big jump I'm proud of them but they

need to grow they need to go to a nine ten on the way that they talked the way that they think the way

that they act be patient with yourself and others that you got to get better at it over time

might not happen for you overnight another way to help you is you got to remind yourself that

most things on this journey if you pay the price a lot of things are short term

and you get to reap the rewards long term like for example I see Mike Tyson making a comeback my

dude's blowing up out there again iron Mike money Mike after all the adversity once he paid the price

he was a world champ even through everything you can't take that away from him as a person what do

you accomplish your champ you know I got friends of mine that are world champ boxers fighters no

matter what's going on in life I don't care if they put on 50 pounds can't run three miles they paid

the price before they're a world champ and so there's things that you can do short term in the process

that you need to do in the short term to set yourself up for the long term and most of the time

it's embracing the suck in that journey short term so you could live and do what you want to do long

term pain is temporary yep you know it pride is forever pain is temporary pride is forever

these sacrifices mentally the things that suck the things that you don't feel like doing those things

are temporary where you end up with your life with your career with your family where you're going

that stuff that you could probably keep forever and guess what the price goes up with time

the price don't get cheaper the price gets more expensive the longer you wait the more expensive it's

going to be if you don't pay the price today and you wait for five years it's going to be more

expensive it's called inflation just like money just like the rest of the world it's going to cost

us more for gas 10 years from today than it does right now

I remember when we would all any up we would all pitch in to go to the mall

Everybody come up with a dollar

We put gas in perms car and we go out to

Boardman to the mall on three four five dollars

It was a dollar for a gallon

We'd be able to put two gallons on there. I mean we couldn't even go to two ten

We just we could better stop for right at two dollars and we can have to get out of here two dollars to get us to the mall and bat now

It would cost us ten dollars or eight dollars

It's inflation

Guys girls leaders fellas bosses future leaders listen

The price is not going to get cheaper. I don't know what you're waiting for

It's only gonna cost you more in the long run. Let's get it done now. Let's get it done today

Payne is temporary

Protest forever embrace the suck on the journey

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